Kent Anderson writing for the Scholarly Kitchen (“What’s Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing”) asks, “Why is science suffering in the modern age?” Among the causes of the crisis of public confidence in science:

Political and societal dysfunction.

Economic dysfunction.

Mass media dysfunction.

Scientific dysfunction.

Admitting the complexities of the first three, Anderson observes of the last: “Scientists need to become better communicators.”

You are cordially invited to the Sixth Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference and First Colloquium on Chronic Illness Care to be organized by the Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 2-4 March 2016 in Hong Kong.

The conference will be one of our key events to celebrate the School’s 25th Anniversary in 2016. The theme of the conference is ‘Achieving transformational and sustainable development in health and social care’.
Online submission of abstracts will open on 2 January 2015. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jul 2015
Abstracts for oral/poster presentations relating to any of the following conference sub-themes are invited:
Ÿ Contemporary health issues and emerging challenges
Ÿ Acute care nursing practice
Ÿ Cancer, palliative and end-of-life care
Ÿ Infectious disease management
Ÿ Health promotion and disease prevention
Ÿ Complementary and alternative medicine
Ÿ Innovative practice
Ÿ Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare, and knowledge translation
Ÿ Aged care, chronic illness care, and social care
Ÿ Innovative health and social care
Ÿ Chronic illness management and rehabilitative care
Ÿ Healthy ageing and aged care
Ÿ Transformational leadership and reforms in healthcare system
Ÿ Healthcare policy and leadership
Ÿ Transcultural practice
We encourage you to present your work and engage in discussion and debate among international and local health and social care providers, policy makers, academics and researchers on strategies and initiatives to achieve transformational and sustainable development in health and social care in local and global contexts.
For more details, please visit our conference website (http://www.nur.cuhk.edu.hk/conference) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/panpacificconference?ref=aymt_homepage_panel).

Director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University, Kevin Smith has published Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers. Published by the Association of College and Research Libraries and available in an open-access PDF version, the book provides scholars with a primer to intellectual property issues in the digital age:

International Journal of Nursing <http://aripd.org/ijn> the official international research journal of American Research Institute for Policy Development. The journal provides a forum for original research and scholarship about health care delivery, organization, management, workforce, policy and research methods relevant to nursing, midwifery and other health related professions. It aims to support evidence informed policy and practice by publishing research, systematic and other scholarly reviews, critical discussion, and commentary of the highest standard.

The journal is published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development <http://www.aripd.org> that serves as a focal point for academicians, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research throughout the world.
The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at editor@aripd.org Please indicate the name of the journal (International Journal of Nursing) in the cover letter or simply put ‘International Journal of Nursing’ in the subject box during submission via e-mail.

E-Publication FirstTM: E-Publication FirstTM is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published online within one week after the completion of all necessary publishing steps.
DOI® number: Each paper published in International Journal of Nursing is assigned a DOI® number, which appears beneath the author’s affiliation in the published paper.

This presentation featured Jason Priem from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discussing the future of scientific communication. Jason is with the school of information and library science and his talk was entitled: Toward a Second Revolution: altmetrics, total-impact, and the Decoupled Journal.
For a complete set of slides from this presentation go to:http://bit.ly/purdue-altmetrics